IT Asset Management

Research Meeting Findings

• Findings: Hosted Virtual Desktops Cost More, Not Less, to License
  18 January 2010
• Findings: Don't Overlook Software Media Disposal
  21 December 2009

Featured Research

• Understand Adobe Volume Licensing to Avoid Unexpected Costs
  2 February 2010
• After the Software Audit: Dealing With the Aftermath and Preventing a Repeat Performance
  2 February 2010
• SaaS-Based Contact Center Infrastructure: Four Questions Key to the Selection Process
  28 January 2010
• Q&A From the IT Financial, Procurement & Asset Summit: Microsoft Licensing
  28 January 2010
• SAP Reintroduces Standard Support: Customers Should Choose Carefully
  18 January 2010
• Q&A: IT Asset Management Starting Points, Resources and Tool Selection
  12 January 2010
• Using IT Asset Management to Assist With the Employee Provisioning and Deprovisioning Process
  14 December 2009
• Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Evolves Into Channel and Enterprise Offerings
  11 December 2009
• All Thin Provisioning Is Not Created Equal: What You Need to Know About Thin Provisioning Implementations
  10 December 2009
• Case Study: HP Cuts Costs With On-Site Solar Power Generation
  10 December 2009

Spotlights

Research collections focusing on current issues

• ATV: Cost Optimization Opportunities Abound in Client Computing
  23 April 2009
• Spotlight: Optimize IT Asset Management and Procurement Costs
  10 April 2009
• Spotlight: Highlights of the IT Financial Procurement and Asset Management Summit
  21 January 2009
• IT Asset Management Staffing Questions and Answers
  5 September 2007
• Server Evaluation Model Summary: Consolidation Platforms, 1H07
  13 June 2007
• Server Evaluation Model Summary: OLTP Database Servers, 1H07
  13 June 2007

The Basics

Essential concepts and fundamental principles

• Best Practices for Confirming Software Inventories in Software Asset Management
  24 August 2009
• Cost Cutting 2009: Office 2007, No Business Case and No SA? Wait for Office 14!
  6 March 2009
• Key Issues for IT Asset Management and Procurement, 2009
  25 February 2009
• Cost Cutting in IT: Beware of the Cost Avoidance Versus Actual Cost-Cutting Trap
  22 April 2008
• TCO of Traditional Software Distribution vs. Application Virtualization
  16 April 2008
• Cost Cutting in PC Procurement and the Pitfalls Between Price and Power Consumption
  9 April 2008
• Best Practices in PC Life Cycle Services
  16 March 2006
• Cost Cutting Requires Corporate Performance Management
  27 February 2008
• IT Asset Capitalization Issues
  16 November 2007
• Gartner Maturity Model for IT Procurement
  2 November 2007
• How to Decide on a Linux Server Platform
  28 September 2007
• The Business Case for Software Asset Management
  28 September 2007
• What to Consider When Making Mainframe Modernization Decisions for the Future
  23 April 2007
• SOA Governance Depends on IT Asset Management
  8 February 2007
• Asset Management: How to Address the Issue of Project Risk
  30 October 2006
• Asset Management: How to Avoid Budgeting Traps
  30 October 2006
• Return on IT Assets Offers a New Approach to Managing IT Assets
  11 May 2006
• Creating a PC Procurement Request for Proposal
  27 April 2006
• Defining Gartner Total Cost of Ownership
  8 December 2005
• How to Eliminate Five Causes of Poor IT Financial Visibility
  6 September 2005

Hype Cycles

The wave of the future — or just hype? Gartner Hype Cycles show the difference

• Hype Cycle for Procurement Applications, 2009
  28 July 2009
• Hype Cycle for Printing Markets and Management, 2009
  14 July 2009

Magic Quadrants

Which vendors are leaders, visionaries, challengers or niche players

• Magic Quadrant for PC Configuration Life Cycle Management Tools
  24 November 2009
• MarketScope for Telecom Expense Management
  22 June 2009

Vendor Ratings

The products, strategies and viability of specific vendors

• Vendor Focus for Oracle: Analysis of Products
  14 October 2009